EEKS!!! I am declaring the GPS5 a total disaster area and it needs a royal clean up. Course then this time of year so do the gardens ... Oh where to start... Guess we will start this day like we do every day Pinky, and thats at the potting bench.. Whats there? Mine looks like Madame Woodsy was here.. MADAME, you are fired! OY!

Well, that was some storm we had last night! This morning everything has put on a new shade of color.

I am sooo glad I got the tomato baskets watered BEFORE the storm hit. They were getting too dehydrated and by doing so that helped them hydrate and take the rain water even better! YAY! They are very lush looking this morning and no wind damages! I am really glad I put them in baskets! It has worked really well, although I think the yeild would be better on them in the ground, but hey, it was fun to try it!

I guess I best get those other chores done so I can start the next list.

Well, we got the hoses re-arranged and so now they are all just about where we need them. Just get them out and before ya know it its winter and time to get them back in... OY!

Watered the GH, the tomato patch and the critters. No veggies today. All caught up for now. Gathered the eggs.

Stll harvesting the seed heads from the tall garden phlox.. There sure is a lot of that stuff. Hope to get a colony started in the back forty that I cn just let go seeditself and not have to clean the plants up in the fall. It will be a wildflower patch for sure. Grow it and mow it! YAY!

Ok, got the other matters taken care of. I got carried away and had to make a trip to my daylily guru! I spent a few hourshelping her picking daylily pods out of her magnificent field of some 2500 varieties of dayliles and admiring her boocoo bunches of other perenials! Wow! Her garden is something else!

Well any, got side lined off my chore list and acquired a huge number of seed pods from her. Check this out! I got two deep buffet server trays full of a huge variety of hopingly future pretty hybrids that is if I can get them to germinate!

My first step is to dry them out further. Daylilies are funny as you can finish most of them off drying up off the plant. I say most, because not all these pods here are going to produce me a fertile seed. I will be lucky actually to get a small portion of all of these, but still well worth the effort.

I also collected pods out of my field and so I had about 3 of these huge trays total to try to start new hybrids with!

Heres a tray! I will just set them some place in the GPS where I will not water them and let them dry out until they are brown and the seed falls from the pod or I can just crush the pod to open it up with the hull

Here is a pod that has dried somewhat... now all those pods are not going to dry at the same time so its going to take a little bit to get them all.

Usually what I will do when I really have time is to harvest the seed and put them in paper bags marking each bag the name of the parent plant the pod came off of. Then just let them dry in the bags until ready to sow and then I can park the pots later as to which is what! This year I was not so lucky for time so all these pods if any of the seed will start and produce me a plant later, each and every plant will be a surpize.

Each seed of the daylily in one pod is an individual gene make up so each seed produces a new plant of a new hybrid variety! These pods all wouldbe what is called open pollinated seed as they were pollinated by insects and people walking by in her garden that may have carried a pollin from another daylily!

Another way I am starting new daylily plants is by profilerations. A proliferation is a fan that is actually growing off the side of a flower stem. I got lucky an dgot some 60 proliferations from my friend and hope to have some nice surprizes from them if I can get them growinf.

Here is a stem with a proliferation.

(Ignor that weedy seedy mess behind it.. thats just more of the end of summer disaster area we are working on cleaning up!)

Well, I am still working on those tall garden phlox today. There is a lot of them!

So far though I watered containers again, pruned the petunia baskets, picked cherry tomatoes, took care of the critters. The cherry tomatoes sure are yummy! Could not resist eating most of them for breakfest! The petunia cuttings are in a tray drying out. Hopefully I will get some seed from them for next season

The sunroses went well. got a few more baskets off of them from their cuttings.

Awhile back when I started the GPS threads I started some burros tails. They finall, well, lets put it this way a few of them finally decided to start up and grow. They are extremely slow and most that I had for starts did whither away.

Here are some of the burros tails. I will have to get a container that will be permanant for them pretty soon. These are one plant that do not take kindly to being moved since they are so fragile and the tails fall off!

Prunes some trees and vines. Not done there yet...End of summer cleanup is a massive undertaking here. I have huge piles of limbs everywhere! Was gonna haul them out but I ran out of fuel so will have to table that project.

I replaced some annuals that died with new plants from the GH. Picked some seed, took care of the critters. Harvested vegatables.

The tomato vines are starting to look bad. Guess they are nearing the end of their trail too. Cleanup there will soon have to be.

Well today we just lollygagged around the garden doing this and that. We started out touring around the beds to see what needed doing. We pulled some weeds and then cleaned up som of my prunings of some trees and shrubs from the day before.

Then we dead headed some of the flowers in the garden that the dead headings can get spread out to the prairie for some naturalization areas. Some of those were...columbine, the tall phlox, a what I think is a Joe Pie, some margarites. We also had some prairie plants that we heeled in. I also dead headed some daylily seed pods, milkweed, rudbeckia goldstrum and heliopsis.

Then we hit the sunflower patch and deadheaded a bunch of sunnies there. They are not quite ripe yet but most that we cut were rip enough to finish out drying on the head but cut from the plant.

We cleaned up some tomatoes that looked to have a blight and need to do some more tomorrow.

Then I watered some plants that needed it and we worked on a spent rockgarden hauling the border out.

We also photoed wildflowers.

And I started some sedum Matrona cuttings. Looks like the ones I struck earlier took.

I acquired some sweet potato vines today and they were so long I decided to make cuttings. I just snipped them each at every two leaf interval leaving a stem to poke into the ground later after it roots. I am just going to put the cuttings in water and hope for the best and leave the mother plant in its pot to hold untim next season or as long as it still grows. Here is the purple vine... Its called Blackie! I am hoping to overwinter these for starts next season in the spring as I have never tried them. You can see there are some roots already on one of the stems of Blackie and there is new growth. The new growth appears green then tunrs purple later!

Yesterday we harvested some sunflowerer heads, picked some apples and grubbed potatoes. We also found a catalpa seedling growing in the potato patch so it was potted up and I need to find a spot for that beauty! We also dead headed some other flowers.

I have several large nursery cans full of sunflowerheads. I need to locate some good cardboard boxes to air dry them in. Its going to be hard to keep the vermine out while they dry down and before I can remove the seed from the heads as these are a tad green yet. If I keep them in the plastic cans and forget to turn the heads periodically, they can mold because the moisture holds in the plastic cans wehre teh cardboard it releases the dampness. And if I have plants that are still in here being watered I need to be extra carefull watering so as not to get the drydown stuff wet.

What is nice about the GH is that it is great for projects like drying down seeds or cut flowers. You just have to monitor anything drying so that the mice and some bugs dont get into it or that the cut flowers do not over dry.

I also have some flowerheads from deadheading that are in here and they are almost dry.

Got a tray full of deadheads to try to get seeds from later. The last one I did dried up and needs storing.

I just cut all the heads and toss the ones that are looking like they will produce seed in a tray like this and let them dry and then next season will broad cast the seed droppings petals and all on flats with potting media in them for next season. When they get growing, I transplant them and whalah! Annuals!

Had to broadcast the daylily pods to the garden bed. The darned things were getting soggy on me so they can dry on top of that bed and will put a little mulch on them tomorrow.

Yanked some more diseased tomatoe plants and pulled the healthy fruits to the kitchen basket. I had a bunch of rotten maters too and they are going to the compost. Now need to figure out what to plant in that bed. Hmmm maybe some coleus. It needs something there for fall.

Straightend the GH a tad... EEKS! the lil catalpa shocked... need to water that now and finish watering the rest of the containers later.

Arrrgh! Dern mice got in to my sunnies that were drying... had to clean that mess up this morning. So I am trying to bag them in large paper feed sacks. Hoping they will not rot now. Ugh.

Moved dome more coleus to the old tomatoe bed and cleaned off some old bedding there. Moved some haning baskets around and watered most of the containers Still need to do the spiders on the porch and the petunia baskets

Moved some more cans.

Pruned the cherry maters.

Moved some sacks of manure out of the GPS to take to the grapes and found my stakes for lining out. Need to paint those a brite orange so I can find them and need a new string on them.

Shame on you for just lurking, !! Ya gotta chime on in! SO do ya have a GPS?

I just unloaded 10 hanging baskets of baby sunrose from mine from cuttings I did a week ago. Now I got 21 of them hanging on my back porch! Never dreamed they would do so well and they seem to be flourishing in the cooler weather!

My sweet potatoe cuttings that I put in water rooted in less than five days. Need to plant them in a basket and the mother plants took on new growth in that short of time too! Awesoome. I am hoping so much to winter them so I have a lot for next years baskets!

Derned mice are eating my sunflower seeds. I done have enooough room to dry them.. gonna have to think of something.. Got any ideas?

I was at Leos today. Leo is a nursery store and that was my first time stopping. Lovely plants that Leo has. but I had to walk out empty handed. THAT WAS SOOOO BLOOMING HARD! ugh!
They had mums. ornamental kale, pansys, water plants their fall shrubs and trees, OMG, It was sooo hard to walk out. She had a lovely blue and green tarro... it was in a lovely clay pot... only thing that stopped me on that one was the weight. I would have had a tough time unloading it by myself today. Besides that.. no place in the house house to keep that lil "monster" for lack of space but man, it was gorgeous kicking self in butt now!

Well, its that time of year to start bringing a few pots into the living quarters. They need to be free of bugs and snakes. I brought in a few small impatiens, a babysunrose basket, and thats it. Did I say snakes... why yes I did! YIPES! After finding a snake of sneaky ID, oh yeah.. NO SNAKES in the house PLEASE! Last thing I need is a danged copperhead or timberrattler wanna be chasing me around IN the living room! ANd Lord knows the battle around here with ants in this sandhill.

Moved some nursery cans to the hoop and sorted them. Got another wagon load of them to do.

Speaking of bugs.. gotta spray for hornets. We say a huge paperhornets nest in the woods and they keep going up by the eaves of the house. I bet they just love those metal roofs and any sturcture they can crawl into that they think they are safe and sound. And hey 6foot2, time to check the roof for leaks and patch it if need be!

I took some more cuttings of the coleaus's and begonias. And bumped up a few starts to larger pots and baskets this morning and so far, thats all I have had time to do other than take a few coleus starts our to the old tomato bed where I plan to plant them in the ground .

Yesterday I started a raised strawberry garden using an old tractor tire. Filled her with dirt from the good humus pile and hosed it till it was mush so it would settle into the tire. If I have time today, I will try to get some strawberry starts to plug into it! I need to move them from my other garden.

Time to water..

ANd anyone lurking here.. please ID this bandito if you can.. We dont know what it is! Im desperate to learn what it is... so far we have 2 votes saying its possibly a copperhead. ~thud~!

Ok, the great strawberry tire wanna be...LOL! Well the mush mud settled...need to bring some strawberry starters here.. well maybe on second thought some thing else? Hmm, going to have to ponder this... I guess its just going to depend how many strawberry plants I can muster up to trans plant here.

These strawberries are from my patch that beautygirl gave me about ten years ago! I started them this summer thinking I might try to winter them inside the house...on second thoughts.. I think they are going in the tire. I need to find some more. Gonna have ta look in the garden for roaming plants! I really do not think they are going to do well inside the livingroom. LOL!

Gonna have to table the strawberry tire for tomorrow. Still need to water some more plants.

Heres one of the begonia and chocolate mint baskets I started this morning. Kinda looks Christmasy! LOL! It would look more like Christmas if it had allysums in it. Alas and sigh.. I dont have any starts of those. But this basket is going to winter in in the livingroom. It is very fragrant with just a few spears of that mint in there! In a few weeks it should be nice and full and a pretty house plant. Hmm I could add some white begonia cuttings in there to fill it more...

Trying not to just lurk but by the time I finish reading all my watch threads seems no time to post.
Must be a good tine to move strawberries, that is what I did all morning in the much needed rain.
Yes I do have a potting shed. DH built it a few years ago so he could have his garage back.

Me either on the snake! It definitely caused a load of laundry after seeing it. It was like really close to my foot and well.. that was too freaky for me! Me and snakes just dont get along! Funny part on that snake though...he came up dead the next day... I found him laying in the path going the other direction...He looks like he has belly bloat...probably ate something too big for its gut?

It did not have any rattles on the tail.. but then it was only 15 inches long so I speckulate its a baby. I know little about snakes.

So far this year I have seen about 6 varieties of snakes. Which is siz too many! Bull snakes, corn snakes, worm snakes, garter snakes, rat snakes and now this buzard bait of a snake... I sure wish I could find my snake chart.

Well, did some of my other chores. I ran some errands and on the way home stopped at a florist. She had some great plants and gave me some sweet potatoe cuttings and some spppppider plant babies.

The sweet potato cuttings are a lighter maroon/yellowish color.

The neat thing on the spider plant was that the momma plant was green. Dark forest green and the babies were striped! So ok, the sweet potatoes are sittign in water now in the cafe so they will get roots to plant later and the lil spiders are already in pots.

And boy and duty am I kicking myself for not taking photos of a few of the plants she had that I really liked! There was a diclorus, a sweet pea, a lovely annual that had a long name that I cant remmember, but the flowers were gorgeous. It looked like a hummingbirds dream. Loaded with red tube flowers and very lush with a leaf that almost was like some gardenias. She had a huge tall purple leaved penstemon, some lovely hydranges, mums and asters and ...and ...and!

Wow, so what do you do with all your cuttings in the winter? Is your potting shed really a greenhouse?
As for the question about me doing crafts, you might say I am a'' wannabee'', I collect things like pine cones and gourds but never seem to find the time.

Well, yes, my "potting shed" is a lilttle greenouse...see pic on the threads beginning! I use it as a storage shed in the winter mainly.

We have two hoop houses. One is about 100 foot long. It is not finished yet.. Right now its been a place where I had my nursery cans stock piled.

The other hoop is only about 25 feet long and was being used to raise chickens up until this year.. it needs plastic on it, but if you go back in the threads you will see I have hanging baskets on it and well next year I plan to do some wild things with growing veggies. Until we get the plastic on it, I am using it as a trellis of sorts! There is a small tool shed on one end.

I will be bringing in a lot of plants into my home this winter. Unless I farm some out! I like doing containers, but also have a pretty good size garden. Dayliles are our specialty, but I raise a good number of perennials that I get from every where! Been trading and such for years! Seems lately every place I go when I get to talking gardening with folks, they give me cuttings or seed and I end up going back to them with something from my garden too.

I just got the sweet potatoe vines and those are a first for me... kinda late to enjoy them for the summer, but I think those should be easy to winter. Same with the spider plants.

I am bringing some herbs into the house too along with some baby sunroses, begonias, impatiens and some others.

I did a lot of hanging baskets this year. There were some 40 cherry tomato baskets to which I will be dumping soon and getting them set up for nextyear.

My DH made me a couple of plantstands for in the home with three teirs of shelves and lights so quite a few outdoor plants will be going on those. After I fill them.. Goodness knows what will become of the left overs!

I like to do crafts. You will find a lot of interesting ideas here on this forum! Im starting wreaths soon. I make my own bases and will show stuff as I get going. The gang here has a lot of talent! There are so many easy things you can do...so if you need suggestions or help, everyone likes to do that too! Take a tour around!

I collect a lot of nature things too. Do dried florals and silks are my specialty, but I do live florals when I get the chance. I am a certified florist, but do things on a hobby base. I would love to have my own little shop. We used to run a retailnursery with the daylilies. Might get back into doing that later again, but for now its just a glorified hobby. No pressure other than to get after the weeds! Do my own thing.

Well, this morning its sunny and nice out. I pruned cherry tomatoes and watered the container plants. Then I harvested the cherrymaters. Ran them and some taters to the kitchen.

I fertilized the mums with chicken doodoo tea.

Weeded the hanging baskets...amazing how weeds can sneak up high in a basket. Must be birds, or come in with the potting soil.

I took cuttings off the coleus, got them started, moved a few plants out of the greenhouse to the patio. Moved a couple more outdoor pots indoors to the living room.

Deadheaded the fouroclocks and need to do something about those sunnies. The mice are still getting into the seed in the GPS. Worked up some watermelon seed, cantalope, green pepper, a few sunflowers, liatris and heliopsis putting them in storage boxes.

I found an old poinsetta pot with a ring brace and transplanted my callas to that. Now when they increase, they will not flop over! YAY!

Later I have to rake up grass clippings.

I want to try to get the mums planted in the ground today...and yank some strawberry starters to put in that tire.

And oh yeah, pot up those sweet potato starters that rooted. Man, they rooted in less than a week in water! Amazing! Got enough for a nice thick haning basket on the margarita variety! Need to find a hanger to put on that pot.

Whew, thats enough for now. Time for a break. going back to the 24 to see if the gang unloaded that pile of boxes! hehehehe!

Here is the new variety of sweet potato vine I got from Browns yesterday. It did not have a label, but they are kind of a neat maroonish gold so that and the Margarite and the Blackie should make for nice trio baskets later!

Deadheaded some marigolds and some coleus for seeds. Packed up sme dried deadheads and checked the grass clippings to see if they were dry enough for raking. Im making hay out of them!

Transplanted one of my Endless Summer Hydrangeas. Looks like the momma plant turned pink as its blossom wained from blue! Neato! Will have to put that to September in the garden.

I cut this wisteria about 2-3 weeks ago. The leaves have dried and its about time to make a wreath out of it while the woody part is still flexible. I use a chicken egg basket for a wreath mold and stick the end through the outside of the basket and wind it around. Then I tie the wreath so it holds with floral wire and remove from the basket!

I will show that later on a craft thread, but in the meantime, here is what the raw material looks like!

Never tried pepper. That would even deter me! LOL! I have been putting the heads in paper feed sacks and dumping them every other day or so and repacking them...does several things.. shags the meece out, shatters the drying heads and checks for mold. Mold I am not too terribly concerned on, but the mice eating all my seed. Yeah.
I am about ready to resort to rat poison. You would think with all the snakes around here we would not have this many mice. and I reallly dont want teither of them in the GPS!

Speaking of peppers... shoot, my green bell pepper seed did not dry right. Gotta toss them. They got moldy and soggy. If it was just a little mold I would just dust them off and try them but these got yicky.

On my list today is water, just saw the weather and they said no rain in the forecast for the next week.
My DH watered the potted plants while I was gone but things will be too dry with a week of no water.
water garden
to coop for feed
A planning lunch
groceries
work this evening (more gardening)

The feed is for horses & goats
The horses are retired pasture pets ,both 31 this year
Goats just two,one pygmy one just cute.
Our house is also full 5 cats 1 dog 1 chinchilla.
at least that is the count today.^_^

LOL! Well try 10 horses, one donkey, one blue dog, a DH for the domestic side and who knows what wild critters lurk elsewhere in this garden... it seems I have been infiltrated with snakes this year (yeck~~)...had two more today.. I wish they would leave and quit eating my frogs!

My oldest mare will be 30, the stallion is 20, a couple are 23, one is 14, one is 10, theres a 4 year old, 2 - 3 year olds and a pony that who the heck knows how old! I think I got everyone cept the dog and the DH! LOL, some kids never grow up! I should cut back on some horses...yano things are bad when ya can rattle of their ages, but when ya call them for supper, ummm whats its name??! LOL!

heres a few of our kids... um, the black mare is 23... her foal is 3...got to be the longest sucking baby around...the mare is a cow.. good for milk for orphans, trouble is, that aint no orphan... thats her baby by our stallion! The mare demands she suck...owell... weaning is out of the question.

Well, I got up this AM at the crack of dawn and did chores. The air was crisp and I could see my breath.

Guess I am going to continue to keep bringing in a few plants at a time.

I picked cherry tomatoes. Got plenty to take to the food pantry to share. I noticed I had mater droppings all over the ground underneath my baskets as the plants are definitely waining. Will pick the green ones tomorrow.

I watered some trees and some planters. We desperately need some rain. The grass is crackling as I walk on it. The leaves of the poplars are just about done falling. They are the first to go. And I noticed a little sassafrass had turned a glorious red already. I have been finding the fuzzy caterpillers. I am betting it will be an early winter.

I had a few bump ups to do, moved some plants out of the GPS to the viranda and need to water in there and on the patios.

The chickens were generous today giving me pleny of eggs and a tub of green water for fertilizing my container plants!

I am going to try to plant that tire with the strawberries today and cut some more of the wildflowers that I am deadheading and take them out to the prairie where they can drop their seed back.

I need to move some plants aroung. I saw a great herb pot planted with begonias so I think I just might do mine, It has chives in the top... so I think I will do just that and put the begonias in the other slips!

We were suppose to get rain , it did for all of 10 minutes not even enough to settle the dust in the pasture. We really could use the rain.
Did some more seed collecting,picked tomatoes and peppers again,repacked the car for tomorrows work.
I still have plants that need to be put in the ground ,just need to find the space.

Hi Gus, Know what you mean about the rain. I dont think we got enough either. We have a great deficit in that department. People are laughing at me wanting 8 inches.. well I dont want it all at once, but a good steady, preferably at nite rain woudl suit me fine! Now thats asking! LOL!

Im trying to plan my day for tomorrow. Got a ton of stuff to do in the office.. which I would prefer to be outside.. so I am trying to burn the midnite oil and to see what I can get done for tonite.

I have to straighten the house in the morning. ugh, I hate housework!! LOL! Laundry, dishes and chase the sweeper. The dog gets off on the chasing the vacuum.

I best water the house plants... gads, I brought some in and have forgotten about doing them alread. Hope I have not lost any.

Well, we shall see what the weather brings.. I got 3 new dayliles to plant.. I acquired Wedding Band and Rosy Returns to the collection.

So Iam a thinking get them planted, do the begonias to the herb pot, fffinish that tire gared with the strawberries and move the hoses for the grapevines so I can get them planted. Do bump ups, deadhead, and clean up brush. Move stock around feed and water. ANd get a couple more swaps ready to mail. I am slowly but surely catchignup on what I promised to mail.

I saw your trade list ...know wonder you are busy..wow what a list.
I can only do one trade at a time or I will forget someone..and I have no room ..need more beds but no time.
As it is I will end up putting the last things in the veggi garden, and that is a no,no because in the spring I will not have enough space for the veggies.

Well, we got another 2/20ths. Just enough to make the grass hay I was putting up a mess until tomorrow. Luckily I only put up enough for the a day ot twos woth of feed so none will be wasted.

Got part of the house clean. Did part of the stuff in the office...dang PC was being a pill today running too slow...

Watered the houseplants and did some bump ups in the greenhouse. Only brought in one spiderplant to the livingroom.

Got the strawberries partially planted in the tire garden. I put the trailing plantlettes that were hanging down from the two hanging baskets I had of them and poked the little babies in the ground while still attatched to the baskets and will let the baskets set there. Will have to prune them off of the baskets eventually as soon as they root better into the tire garden and then fill in the holes where I need more plants. I will probably mulch the tire with straw this winter to help protect the new starters. One of the hanging basket has three flowers and a berry in it! Mind you these are June bearing strawberries! LOL!

I got the begonias in the herb pot. Kindof an odd combo, chives in the top part and begonias in the rest, but what the hey! I needed to plug the holes with something!

Other than clean up yard debris that was my day.

Oh, I did halfway make a mental plan for my veggie garden for next year...gotta tweak the ideas.

Looks like a bad hair day.
Is bump ups like potting on?(a bigger pot)
I worked in a greenhouse once and we called filling an empty square in a cell pack ''fudging''.
I washed the dog ,cleaned the chinchilla's cage,cut down a willow tree, and laundry.
watched House a TV show , I almost never watch TV, but now I have to do my Bible study and off to bed.

Heres the bad hair day after the fact! LOL! Hope I can winter that "monstor" in the house. I have never tried doing that with begonias! I tried doing herbs in it and got it until one christmas before it up and croaked on me. Hope I can do better with the begonias. My home is not too terribly plant friendly due to lack of humidity. Or is that lack of wanna?

If our lil greenhouse was heated, I would go crazy and need to get the bigger house going in no time. That is I would if I could make it support itself. Cost of electric or LP is through the roof anymore and hobbying the plants is too costly.

That reminds me, I should do our dog. She's is a day or two past due! PU!

Well, did my usual deadheading this morning on the annuals. Moved some coleus to the viranda and brought some begonias out of the GPS.

Holy cow do I have a mess in there. The sunflowers all were rotten. I need to clean up the paperbags they were in and destroy what is left. The GPS was way too humid to dry the sunnies properly so I am at a good hiuge loss on the seeds I was hoping to save for next years planting. Well, the dirt from the grapevine project, the cherry tomater prunings and now the sunnies mush are going to the compost...

I pulled some more strawberry starts from the garden to put in the tire.

Watered containers that needed it and need to get some potting soil and pot up some margarites.

Ok, well, One thing at a time, one day at a time. Thats all we can do.

Had to do some more cuttings this morning and I cleaned up the last of the mess of the sunflowers. Boy that was a disaster! Some years you get it some years you dont. This year was not my year for the sunnies, however there will be a few.

Had to move some bump ups outside and pot up some more bumps.

Did the deadheads and moved the seed already dried to the craft room to put in envelops.

This is the only wax begonia I have this year.
I have never seen one with this type flowers before (an impulse buy )
I asked the name they just said pretty pink. so I call her Fluffy.
I think I will take her inside and see if she will winter over for me.

Well Fluffy is very lovely! I took cuttings of my newbs...hope to make more and also bring them indoors.

Just checked on them this morning. Seems the 50 degree windy rainy weather we got did not phase them a bit, but then they were in the GPS.

Going to check on my pansys... I took the mums to the cafe last night at 3 am...the wind about blew me out of bed through an open window! Like. man, I just got those and did not want them blown to smitherins!
C'mon down to the cafe 24 later and enjoy a cuppa there and some chatter! The gang there are prettying up the place! Bring a boquet in and set a spell!

Sounds like you all have been quite the busy bees. Same for here lots to do to prepare for the upcoming frost.
What a beautiful garden shed you have bardengus and you have decorated it splendidly and in a way that it is so practical for all your needs.
Guess when I get home today I'll start finding spots to plant those tulip bulbs. Never made it to your house BB to get the pots so guess I will just have to do them in the ground as usual. I have some pots but either they are tiny and would hold only 1 bulb or huge and not practical to dig a huge trench.

I would just cut off all the long trailers and let it grow back inside over winter, just my idea. I have to do the same with my vigna and it is running all over the island and I just pull it up and give it a complete haircut to the bone and then in it comes. Sad but must be done as I just don't have the space in our bedroom for what I have to bring in let alone any overgrowth.
Now those are some pretty faces on the pansies. My favorite is the Firey Yellow.

I love that one too. Ok, I am gonna nip the vinca, but what can we do with the cuttings? Can they be rooted in water or is the dip it in rooting hormone method the best?

Hope someone can tell me today since I am thinking not to chance another night outside with it and gads I will have cuttings galore!

I need to go plant some coleus to the flower bed... Might be a last ditch effort on them to enjoy, but I need the pots to bring in some more begonias and they are in my clay pots and I have plenty of Kong in the house! My one plant stand in the living room is almost full on two teirs. I have to leave the lower teir empty of plants so the dog does not get into them. Need to clean off the other plant stand and start filling that one.

I keep hanging the thing higher and higher! Was curious how long I could get it 6 foot plus now...you have the same as I do. Im gonna cut it and bring it in. Was gonna today, but chickend out! I dont have a spot in the garden for it yet. If I kill it, when you prune yours keep me in mind!

Instead of cutting it how about just gathering it and pinning it back into the pot.
I use to have a string of hearts houseplant I did that with, it would get too long so I just gathered it in the halfway point and pinned it back in the pot. You could use a landscape fabric pin.
I find they have all kinds of good uses. I hold in place new iris that way, and pin down branches if things I want to root.

Its like hair! LOL! too bad my GPS is not heated.. I would plop it in there and be able to hang it! Well, yano, if it got this long since spring, it will do it again maybe, that is if I dont murder it first!

Well, I best get pruning. I also need to get those chives in that tire today and have to do so before it rains. Its looking like it will.

OMG I had no idea it was the same vinca as I have. BB, mine is huge and grows into everything in its path. I rue the day I planted it in the garden sometimes. I will surely post a photo. I notice that sections of mine root themselves much like english ivy. Just take a section of it, place it in a tray of soil and cover it with soil between a few of the leaves and it will root itself. be sure the cut end is also covered with soil and keep it moist.

Well, I think what I am gonna do now is cut it in about 6 inch lengths and put several in a pot at a time. I will dip it in rooting hormone and see what comes. I have nothing to lose if I dont try it! I sure would notmind more hanging baskets of it for next year. Ima thinking todays the day! Got rain coming on tonite and it might get cooler.

I saw another vinca looking vine at a resturant. it has somewhat of a curly leave and the leaves are larger...dont know what it is, but been tempted to snitch a snip! LOL! Maybe if Fritz is working there, I will have to ask him! LOL!

Well, letsee, I have to pot up some wax begonias. Gonna put them in baskets and bring them in the house. I am sooo hoping the begonias will make it for next season to give me a jump on outdoor planters! Hope my newbies make it too before it gets to cold.

I am back and freaking out just heard wide spread FROST on the radio. Do not know where my head has been, I have read your preparations and thought'' not me''
so much to do and so little time
Answer: a short study on David covers a couple books here and there.

I checked the accuweather on the net and it said 38 for a low so I only did the'' garage shuffle'' (thats what the guys call it in the fall when I make them help move everything to the garage then back out every day ) on the houseplants and covered a few precious things. Just got back from hauling a trailer of stuff to my sons school 5 hours down and back.

Doncha jes luv fall! We gardeners run around going the sky is falling the sky is falling like a bunch of turkeys at a barn dance!! LOL!

I start dragging one pot in at a time mid September... usually take in my favs... then what comes comes! I figure by Christmas or January I end up chucking them out to the compost anyway and need to make room for starting seeds.

One day, we are gonna get the plastic on that small hoophouse we have and I am not gonna muss with a lot of this stuff in the livingroom anymore.

I miss my old farm house. I used to do this stuff in thhe crawlspace. I could water there, mess the floor and not worry until spring when I cleaned it out. IN this house.. OY! Gotta make like a florist every day.